[Pkg-xfce-devel] [fwd: Re: for those who care about GNOME^w glib applications.]

Emanuele Rocca ema at debian.org
Wed Mar 22 11:33:20 UTC 2006


For those who don't follow -devel

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From: Gustavo Franco <gustavorfranco at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:24:00 -0300
Subject: Re: for those who care about GNOME^w glib applications.
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On 3/21/06, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2006 at 14:42, Gustavo Franco praised the llamas by saying:
> > Well, if you're running your favourite glib application and it seems
> > to be broken with the output like:
> > (...)
> > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08ced388 ***
> >
> > It's probably due to the new glib (GSlice) memory allocator[0], but
> > it's an application bug. Please first check if it's really glib
> > related[1].
> >
> > There's a workaround that is run the application as follows:
> > $ G_SLICE=always-malloc application
> >
> > FYI, evolution seems to be affected and it was already fixed upstream.
> > Sebastian Bacher has a patch to galculator too. If you hit this bug in
> > other random application, please open a bug against the application
> > and feel free to cc: me. I'll try keep track of these bugs with
> > usertags.
>
> I appear to have a bug filed today against irssi with a similar error.
> Bug number is 358172.
> >
> > [0] = http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/rndevelopers.html
> >          http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Slices.html
> >
> > [1] = ldd `which application` | grep libglib
> >

Right, i just commented in that bug and usertagged the others that i
found[0]. If you see any other related bug, please tell me. I
commented on the evo' related bug and AFAIK seb128 already has a patch
that fixes the galculator one.

[0] = http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=stratus@debian.org;tag=gslice

Thanks,
-- stratus

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ciao,
    ema
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